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Today I’m blogging at The Kindness Project about a person I admire very much.

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Published on March 13, 2013 17:42 • 14 views
Average rating: 3.49 · 5,765 ratings · 1,018 reviews · 3 distinct works · Similar authors
XVI (XVI, #1)
3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 4,800 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions
Truth (XVI, #2)
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 961 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
Untitled (XVI, #3)
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013

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“Sometimes I wish I could just be like everyone else my age and not think at all.”
Julia Karr, XVI

“I'd choked back so many tears, they'd become a lake of sadness in my belly.”
Julia Karr, XVI

“Religion seemed to me like one group of people telling another group that their color of red was the best. And that everyone had to believe that, or else.”
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second vote for the Traveling book

I took the top five books and started a new poll i think that there were just to many to chose form :)

Entangled by Cat Clarke



goodreads summary-The same questions whirl round and round in my head:
What does he want from me?
How could I have let this happen?
AM I GOING TO DIE?

17-year-old Grace wakes up in a white room, with a table, pens and paper - and no clue how she got here.

As Grace pours her tangled life onto the page, she is forced to remember everything she's tried to forget. There's falling hopelessly in love with the gorgeous Nat, and the unravelling of her relationship with her best friend Sal. But there's something missing. As hard as she's trying to remember, is there something she just can't see?

Grace must face the most important question of all. Why is she here?

A story of dark secrets, intense friendship and electrifying attraction.
 
  42 votes 39.6%

XVI by Julia Karr



goodreads summary-Nina Oberon's life is pretty normal: she hangs out with her best friend, Sandy, and their crew, goes to school, plays with her little sister, Dee. But Nina is 15. And like all girls she'll receive a Governing Council-ordered tattoo on her 16th birthday. XVI. Those three letters will be branded on her wrist, announcing to all the world—even the most predatory of men—that she is ready for sex. Considered easy prey by some, portrayed by the Media as sluts who ask for attacks, becoming a "sex-teen" is Nina's worst fear. That is, until right before her birthday, when Nina's mom is brutally attacked. With her dying breaths, she reveals to Nina a shocking truth about her past—one that destroys everything Nina thought she knew. Now, alone but for her sister, Nina must try to discover who she really is, all the while staying one step ahead of her mother's killer.
 
  23 votes 21.7%

Matched by Ally Condie


goodreads summary-Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate . . . until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black.

The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on the happy life she's destined to lead with Xander. But Cassia can't stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility and is faced with an impossible choice: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path that no one else has dared to follow.
 
  17 votes 16.0%

Beastly by Alex Flinn



goodreads summary-Now a major motion picture starring Vanessa Hudgens and Alex Pettyfer
I am a beast.
A beast!
Not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog but a horrible new creature who walks upright. I am a monster.
You think I'm talking fairy tales? No way. The place is New York City. The time is now. It's no deformity, no disease. And I'll, stay this way forever ruined unless I can break the spell.
Yes, the spell, the one the witch in my English class cast on me. Why did she turn me into a beast who hides by day and prowls by night? I'll tell you. I'll tell you how I used to be Kyle Kingsbury, the guy you wished you were, with money, perfect looks, and the perfect life. And then, I'll tell you how I became perfectly...beastly.
 
  16 votes 15.1%

The Water Wars by Cameron Stracher



goodreads summary-Welcome to a future where water is more precious than gold or oil-and worth killing for

Vera and her brother, Will, live in the shadow of the Great Panic, in a country that has collapsed from environmental catastrophe. Water is hoarded by governments, rivers are dammed, and clouds are sucked from the sky. But then Vera befriends Kai, who seems to have limitless access to fresh water. When Kai suddenly disappears, Vera and Will set off on a dangerous journey in search of him-pursued by pirates, a paramilitary group, and greedy corporations. Timely and eerily familiar, acclaimed author Cameron Stracher makes a stunning YA debut that's impossible to forget.


"Let us pray that the world which Cameron Stracher has invented in The Water Wars is testament solely to his pure, wild, and brilliant imagination, and not his ability to see the future. I was parched just reading it."-Laurie David, academy award winning producer of An Inconvenient Truth, and author of The Down to Earth Guide to Global Warming
 
  8 votes 7.5%

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message 7: by Linda

Linda Atnip Thanks for the friendship. I enjoy connecting with other authors and see what they are reading!

Happy Holidays,

Linda


message 6: by Julia

Julia You're welcome. So glad you liked XVI and I really hope you like Truth, too!


Leanne Bell Hey, thanks for accepting my friend request. I thought XVI was amazing and I can't wait to read Truth :-)

Leanne


message 4: by Julia

Julia You're most welcome! Thanks for asking. :)

Nicole wrote: "Thank you for accepting :)"


Nicole ♥ Thank you for accepting :)


Jillian -always aspiring- Thanks for accepting my friend request, Julia! And also for confirming that XVI will have a sequel. I look forward to it! :)

Happy writing!

Jillian


Ashley S. Thank you for adding me


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